Christopher Nolan, Oscar-winning director of the remake of The Odyssey. to conquer the box officeDeep skepticism about artificial intelligence is “quite encouraging,” he said. especially from young people.
It was Nolan Answering a question from interviewer Hugo TraversPosted on YouTube under the name HugoDécrypte. Travers bred the legendary Trojan horse that plays a central role in Nolan’s film – just as the horse is a gift that hides the murderous Greek invaders, and he wondered whether AI is something you “welcome into your everyday life” but ends up becoming “something else and darker”.
Nolan replied with a laugh: “I think AI is a Trojan horse and everyone knows the Greeks are in it.” He later described the technology as “a transparent horse, made of glass.”
“I’ve never seen such a rapidly developing technology completely rejected by the public,” he said. “Everyone’s skepticism about it is so extreme, especially young people. The reaction to AI videos on the internet and people my kids’ age immediately call it ‘AI slip’ and make up that term and just put it in a box.”
According to Nolan, this is “a very healthy skepticism, because technology will always give us great gifts, as you say, but it should be treated with skepticism.” Similarly, he says, “We also need to be skeptical of people’s motives for giving it to us. That’s when we’ll get the best out of new technology, rather than blindly believing that everything will be great.” (Meanwhile, the CEO of SpaceX was Elon Musk posts angrily about the film’s non-white and transgender cast.)
Nolan didn’t go into more detail about the threat posed by artificial intelligence, but the technology became a growing source of concern in Hollywood and was a major focus during this period. Holidays of writers and actors of 2023. The Directors Guild of America, of which Nolan is president also gained some generative AI defenses in his most recent contract.
The director is famously against other technologies, including smartphones; his embrace of the film might make him seem like one at the same time A Luddite and The Odyssey pioneered being the first feature film shot entirely on Imax film and cameras.
Time New York Times He recently asked Nolan if he considered himself a technophobehe replied, “I consider myself a techno-skeptic,” and said his love for film stems from “the fact that it’s better than any digital imaging system I’ve seen in terms of representing the way the eye sees the world.”
“I’m always receptive to new technology, but it still tends to be sold to people at the expense of systems that can be trusted and reliable,” Nolan said. “That’s what I see in my industry – throwing the baby out with the bathwater. We almost lost the movie!”
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